Vehicle-hub



UNITED. STATES PATENT? Ormea.

HENRY w. nuonsounv, or sr. Louis, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-HUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 516,471, dated March 13, 1894.

Application led August 21, 1893. Serial No. 483,673. (No model.) i

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, HENRY W. BRoEsQUIN, of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Hubs, of which the following'is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improved combined vehicle step and axle nut, and consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and designated in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of a vehicle hub, showing my invention applied to the same with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view of my invention as applied to the vehicle axle. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a combined vehicle step and axle nut detached. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a vehicle hub, and also a section of the modied form of my invention. Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on the line 5, 5 of Fig. 4.

I will give a description of the advantages and general utility of my invention in connection with the mechanical description thereof.

Referring to the drawings, l indicates a ve-` hicle hub which is Virtually of the ordinary construction, the departure from the ordinary construction whereof will be more fully hereinafter described.

2 indicates the axle which is provided on its outer end with an externally screw threaded portion 3, on which my combined vehicle step and axle nut is adapted to be supported.

4 indicates my improved vehicle step and axle nut,'the same being circular in.cross section and bell shape in longitudinal section. Said vehicle step and axle nut has a closed outer end which is provided with an internally screw threaded socket 5, in which the externally screw threaded portion 3 of the axle 2 is adapted to be inserted, and is also provided with an annular depression 6 surrounding said socket so as to aiord space for the location of the hub band 7. It may be noted in this connection that 8 indicates the shell or rim, which has a continuous roughened exterior surface, extending in the form of a circle completely around said shell, and is provided with the tapering inner edge 9. Said shell or rim S projects inwardly t0- ward the spokes 10, but does not come in contact therewith as can be readily perceived by referring to Fig. 1. It may be notedin this connection that the vehicle step and axle nut is not turned by the rotation of the wagon hub, so that a person is perfectly safe in placing their foot on the roughened exterior sur- 6o face thereof even while the vehicle is in motion. The said vehicle step and axle nut is also provided with a curvilinear depression 1l so as to lessen the Weight of the same, and also with an angular projecting portion 15 for 65 the reception of a wrench for applying and taking off the said vehicle step and nut from the axle.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modification of my invention wherein instead of screwing the 7o said vehicle step and axle nut on the axle, I secure the same to the reduced portion 12 of the axle 2, by means of a wedge or key 13 which is adapted to pass through suitable perforations 14 formed in the shell S and hub 75 band 7, and also through a suitable perforation formed in the reduced portion of the axle 2.

Aside from the'manner of securing the step and axle nut to the axle, the remaining con- 8o struction is virtually the same, as can be seen in Figs. 1 and 4.

From the above description it will be observed that although myimproved combined step and axle nut is likely to be locked in different positions axially with relation to the axle upon which it is mounted, yet by reason of its having a continuous roughened exterior surface extending in the form of a circle coinpletely around it, an effective step-surface will 9o be provided at all times, no matter what may be the axial position of said device upon said axle.

I am aware that prior to my invention combined steps and axle nuts havebeen provided with a step portion, having a roughened upper surface and formed integral so that said surface might be revolved and located in different axial positions with relation to the axle in tightening lthe nut upon said axle, and I, roo therefore, do not claim such as myinvention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is The improved Vehicle step and axle nut combined, comprising the body 4 circular in surface will be presented at all times in tightio cross-secti0n,having a continuous roughened ening the nut upon the axle, substantiallyas exterior step-surface extending in the form of herein specified.

a circle completely around it, a closed outer4 In testimony whereof Iaffix my signaturein end in which is formed a socket for receiving presence of two witnesses.

the outer end of the axle, an annular depres- HENRY W. BROESQUIN. sion 6 surrounding said socket, a tapering in- Witnesses:

ner edge 9, and means for securing said body EDWARD E. LONGAN,

upon the axle, whereby an effective stepping ALBERT LENZ. 

